Book Three Chapter 5

In Book Three Chapter Five, O'Brien strapped Winston to a chair and then clamped Winston's head so that he could not move. He had told Winston that Room 101 contains "the worst thing in the world." He reminded Winston of his worst nightmare, which was being i a dark place with something terrible on the other side of the wall, which just so happens to be rats. O'Brien picked up the cage of enormous, squirming rats and placed it near Winston. He said that when he presses a lever, the door will slide up and the rats will jump onto Winston's face and eat it. With the rats only inches away from his face, Winston cracked and he screamed to O'Brien that he wanted to subject Julia to the torture rather than him. O'Brien, satisfied by the betrayal, removed the cage away from him. 

In this chapter, I feel that Winston just wanted to live a normal life and that he couldn't take being a rebel anymore. The fact that he was willing to allow Julia to take the torture rather than him shows that he doesn't want to deal with the pain and will just submit to make it stop. I feel like the message behind this story is that no matter how much you want to rebel, there will always be a force that will make you submit to their will. But I don't necessarily believe that because if someone is steadfast on something, then they will be willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that they get what they want or to make themselves known